German government websites were brought down Wednesday by a deliberate attack claimed by a pro-Russian hacking group connected to the separatist movement in eastern Ukraine. The hack came a day before German Chancellor Angela Merkel was set to meet with Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk in Berlin to discuss economic cooperation.
A group calling itself CyberBerkut, in reference to a Ukrainian special police unit that largely aligned itself with pro-Russian separatists as hostilities grew in Ukraine last year, claimed responsibility for the attack. In a post on their website, the group accused Yatsenyuk of seeking money from the European Union and International Monetary Fund to extend the war in eastern Ukraine, not to rebuild the country.
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